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Granted rights to all nobles and freeman.
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Roanoke was the first attempted colony in america. It is known as the lost colony.
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105 settlers in 3 ships landed on virginia coast, and they started the first settlement known as Jamestown.
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First representative assembly in New World.
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A written document for self government.
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Founded providence in june as a democratically ruled colony.
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Regulating colonial commerce to suit english needs.
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Signed treaty with delaware indians april 23, and made a payment for Pennsylvania.
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20 alleged witches executed by special court.
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A religious revival in the 1700's.
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He published the first Poor Richards Almanack. Published anually until 1757.
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He was acquitted of libel Aug. 5 in New York after criticizing the british governors conduct in office.
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The war began when french occupied Ft. Duquesne. British moved Acadian Frech from Nova Scotia to Louisiana October 8, 1755.
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Placed duties on lumber, foodstuffs, molasses, and rum in colonies, to pay French and Indian War debts.
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Enacted by parliament Mar. 22, required revenue stamps to help fund royal troops.
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Required colonist to house British troops, went into effect Mar. 24.
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Levied taxes on glass, painters lead, paper, and tea. In 1770 all duties ecept on tea were repealed.
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A protest with the tax of tea.
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Parlaiment curtailed Massachusetts self rule.
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Held in Philadelphia, called for civil disobedience against British.
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Rode to alert patriots that the briish were on their way to concord to destroy arms, His famous call was " the britsh are coming ".
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Minute men lost 8. people and the british took 273 casualties.
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Addressed Virginia Convention " give me liberty or give me death ".
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Famous pro-independence pamphlet by Thomas Paine.
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These united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states.
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Cutt off British escape route, Burgoyne surrendered 5,000 men at Saratoga.
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Adopted by the Continental Congress.
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On the Bonhomme Richard defeated Serapis in British North Sea waters.
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Adm. Francois Joseph de. Grasse landed 3,000 French and stopped the british fleet in Hampton Roads.
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Recognized American Independence.
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Debt.-ridden farmers in Massachusetts failed.
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Opened in Philadelphia, May 25, with Washington presiding, Constitution accepted by delegates.
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Adopted July 13 by Continental Congress for Northwest Territory, North of the Ohio River.
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Chosen Pres, by all electors.
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Submitted to states, Sept. 25, 1789 went into effect on December 15.
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He invented the cotton gin, reviving southern slavery.
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Warned against permanent alliances with foreign powers, big public debt, large military establishment, and devices of small, artful, enterprising minority.
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Napoleon sold all of Louisiana, stretching to the Canadian border. He sold the land for 11,250,000 in bonds, plus 3,750,000 indemnities to American citizens.
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Expedition ordered by Pres. Thomas Jefferson to explore what is now the northwest of the U.S.
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He made the first poractical steamboat.
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Britain seized U.S. ships trading with France. Britain seized 4,000 naturalized U.S. sailors by 1810. Brtain armed indians, who raided western border U.S. stopped trade with Europe 1807 and 1809
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Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
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A bill passed by congress, Mar. 3. Slavery was allowed in Missouri, but not west of the Mississippi River north.
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Opposing European intervention in the americas, enuciated by President James Monroe.
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Cherokee Indians were forced to walk the "Trail Of Tears" from Georgia to Oklahoma starting in October.
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The first message was sent on the telegraph by Samuel F.B. Morse from Washington to Baltimlore on March 24, 1844.
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Expansionist had used a slogan called manifest destiny coined by a journalistin 1845.
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Lucretia Mott, and Elizabth Cady Stanton started the Womens Rights Convention.
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Author of Uncle Toms Cabin.
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Decision by the supreme court Mar. 6 held that slaves did not become free in a free state.
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He was elected as President.
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Jefferson Davis was Pres. Confederates fired on Ft. Sumter in Charleston, Sout Carolina. They captured the Ft.
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The bloodiest one day battle during the Civil War.
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Freed slaves in areas still in rebellion.
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A speech by Abraham Lincoln.
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27,800 Confederate Troops to Gen. Grant at Appoomattox Court House.
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He was shot in Fords Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
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Providing for citizenship of all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. The Aendment was ratified on july 9.
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Making race no bar to voting rights, ratified Feb. 8.
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She started the American Red Cross.
